G'evening all,
I created a category "modellers blog (http://www.de.feldbahnmodellbau.de/category/blog//)" to report occasionally little progress on current projects, because it takes usually such a long time until a project is finished and the corresponding building report is written.
This is my second attempt to build a new "old shed", as my first attempt "chicken shack" did not meet my requirements already while building it.
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Again I started with gray card board (2mm) as a base und glued the framework, consisting of pinewood strips (3x5mm), as well as the amounts of individual bricks onto the card board. The joints between the bricks are going to be filled with modelling plaster with low viscosity, mixed with a shot of mixing colour (anthracite) from the local DIY shop. I used my fingertips and a so called japanese spatula to nearly press the modelling plaster into the joints. When dry, I used a brass wire brush/a discharged toothbrush and a sponge to remove the surplus of plaster, followed by a treatment of highly watered down watercolour to give the bricks a realistic look. After that I cut matching wood strips out of basswodd/lime-wood (2mm), treated with to kinds of instant wood stain, followed by a coat of watered down white watercolour and, when dry, followed by a second coat of highly watered down water colour (gray,brown, green and black), using a wet-in-wet technique and then, when totally dry, glued on the skeletal pinewood framework.
The wooden top beam ("Raehm") and especially the lower wooden beam ("Schwelle") have to be overworked/recoloured as their colour does not look realistic enough yet. And I'm not satisfied with the colouring of the bricks, which has to be redone partially too.
G'evening all,
as this is not finescale modelling yet, the icons of finescale modelling may eventually look away ... ;D
... but this is another project keeping me busy for a long time: The construction of an IR-controlled scale 1/22,5 Diesel critter. The motor, gearbox, circuit board(s) and all electronic equipment origins from a scale 1/32 SIKU® Lanz Bulldog. One feature of that Lanz Bulldog tractor is, that is has a sound module onboard (not shown on picture) with load-dependent sound of a working hot bulb semi-diesel. The ends of the axle are cut off to make the motor (with gearbox) fit into the frame. I'm not quite sure yet, if it will be better mounted with the axle in cross direction (as shown) or in longitudinal direction. I recently managed to solder the frame and drill some holes for the axle boxes. I intend to use this manufactured brass axles as well as this brass Feldbahn wheels and some gear wheels for transmission. What kind of loco it will going to be (freelance or prototype) is still up in the air - and depends a little on the possible coachwork, when all electronical equipment is fixed ...
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Gerald,
I would think like a number of other people we will be watching your progress on this very closely. :)
Could give us an idea of the width of the unit i.e. from the end of the electric motor to the end of the gearbox/transmission - thanks
Visions of rusty overgrown twisted uneven industrial track and no power pick up problems mmmmmmmmmmmmm!!
Yes do tell.
Quote from: gfadvance on November 01, 2011, 02:14:20 PM
Could give us an idea of the width of the unit i.e. from the end of the electric motor to the end of the gearbox/transmission - thanks
Quote from: marc_reusser on November 01, 2011, 02:36:37 PM
Yes do tell.
... awright, awright ... ;)
The approx. dimensions of that unit are (axle excluded) width 30mm x height 12mm x length 30 mm (gearbox side) ...
BTW: In case of a successful conversion I've got another SIKU® tractor with remote control (2,4 Ghz radio control) in my cupboard, waiting to be bashed ... 8)
Hi Gerald,
Fine Scale models feature I find very interesting.
Finally, I strive to yes even with my models, good looks at prototypical function.
Interesting product, too bad they aren't sold in the USA.
G'evening all,
after starting to build a new chicken shack or shed respectively, because the intermediary result did not meet my requirements, I thought it could be a good idea to build a new door too. The old door I treated only with wood instant stain and water colour from a children's box of watercolours. Now I was ready to accept a dare to give techniques used i. e. by Marc or Marcel Ackle a try ...
Again I used strips of limewood (1 mm) and treated them as follows:
- softly treated with a wire brush
- coloured with instant stain (first darkgray, then "my special blend": 2 parts "oak dark", 1 part "dark gray" and 3 parts water
- coated with highly watered down water colour (mainly white, with a little black/gray), followed (wet in wet) by another coat of green and/or brown watercolour, dabbing the woodstrip gently with a tissue in case of using too much water
- coated with white spirit (Terpentinersatz), left nearly half a day in the sun for drying
- coloured with acrylic paint (wet in wet): Lukas acrylics darkgreen, brightened up with a little white
- using masking tape to remove little areas of the acrylic paint again
- finishing with some coat of highly watered down water colour again (shades of gray, white, brown and green)
To place the "nails" I first drilled tiny holes (0,5mm) in the wood strips, cut 8 mm long parts of styrene (rod, .020" diameter), squeezed them a few millimeters into the hole, gave the front ends some rusty look (Humbrol), squeezed them in completely when dry and cut the remaining part (backside) of. A technique I adopted from Marc as seen in one of his building reports.
Now I'm wondering, if I have eventually overdone the weathering on the door ... ??? ... feedback/suggestions are welcome ...
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Door looks good. Angled wall brace needs work!!!! ::)
G'evening all,
even I did not want to build any Gn15 stuff anymore, I could not resist the temptation after having build these little "modern Feldbahnwagen" *klick* (http://www.de.feldbahnmodellbau.de/projekte-projekt-moderner-feldbahnwagen-fur-gn15/) and *klick* (http://www.de.feldbahnmodellbau.de/projekte-projekt-moderner-feldbahnwagen-fur-gn15-2/), because it was really fun ... :D
Putting these modern Feldbahnwagen on HO tracks (16,5 mm) - from the scrapbox too - the tracks seemed to be to tiny. Having matching rails in stock regarding gauge IIf (26,7 mm representing 600 mm tracks in 1/22,5 scale) I wanted some track setting jigs. First thought was: online ordering. second thought was: making some.
Therefore I used U-shaped brass (6 x 3 mm), which I use building the frames of my gauge IIf track flatcars. Making track setting jigs was something completely new to me. So I tried every step first on identical wood strips, adjusting the parallel arrestor of my Boehler circular saw when necessary. For making the notches I almost turned down the saw blade completely (only approx 1,5 mm left) and moved the track setting jigs over it. Fortunately the saw blade has the same width as the head of the rails (1,6 mm): *click* (http://www.hassler-profile.li/Schienen45D.html).
Making track setting jigs on one's own this way is for sure neither new nor my invention, and mine are not so beautiful and professional as the one made by Helmut (HSB-Design) on the right and borrowed from Frithjof (fspg2), but it was a little challenge for me ... and fun and successful at last ... ;)
So now I'm enabled to lay straight tracks (or curves) by hand. May be, I'll be successful too building a switch next, which I did not manage to build in gauge IIf yet ...
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They look pretty beautiful to me. Nice work. -- Russ
G'evening all,
due to the fact, that some solvent/component of the liquid styrene glue is to blame for the deformation in the lower areas of my Struppe Akkulok, I was thinking about possibilities to rescue it ... or at least parts of it.
As the Struppe Akkuloks at the Geriatriezentrum in Lainz/Vienna were built in the ninteeneighties as kinda "modernized copies" of the Akkuloks built by AEG in 1925 both types are - more or less - identical in dimensions and construction, apart from the cab, the storage battery case and "the intestines". This can be well spotted on one AEG Akkulok, which got modernized:
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kind contribution/by permission of Mr. Kurt Stanek
So it suggested itself to have a closer look, if not the bodyshell work of my Struppe Akkulok could be transferred into this modernized AEG Akkulok. At first I cut off a few millimeters to match the dimensions (height) of the storage battery case, followed by a "chop off" of the damaged lower part of the bodyshell work with a circular saw. The frame made of brass channels is not true to original, just a part of the fast mockup. I'm still undecided wether to build the frame with styrene or brass ... and still in doubt wether it should run on 26,7mm gauge (IIf) or 16,5mm gauge (Gn15) ... ???
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Cheers
Little bit of everything in this thread! Fun stuff ... especially like the looks of that little critter ... great prototype! -- Dallas
Lovely prototype. Look forward to your build of this.
Marc
G'evening all,
made a piece of test drive track in IIf gauge (26,7 mm) to figure out, if my rolling stock would be able to solve a tighter radius, as I will not have the required space for my layout due to family issues. At the same time I tried to improve creating my sleepers to come closer or even match the appearance of this prototype (second pic) at the Feldbahn TUEV Norderstedt (http://www.de.feldbahnmodellbau.de/vorbilder-feldbahn-tuev-norderstedt/), blackened the rails, which worked quite well but still is improvable and finally tried to applicate some colour at one side of one rail to imitate rust ...
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Cheers
Neat looking track! -- Dallas
Some interesting snippets and nicely done -just love the track work the colouring looks fine -
Barney.
G'evening all,
While visiting the Museum der Arbeit (Museum of Work) taking some photos of a clamshell supporting Frithjof's project I also came across this green door: "... Green Door, what's the secret you're keepin' / There's an old piano and the play it hot behind that Green Door ..." ;D
Um, well ... actually there wasn't any sign of life behind that green door, but I thought it would be a good idea to build at least a section of the wall including that green door:
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I built the door from styrene: door leaf (thickness 0,25mm), door frame (strip 2x2mm). The rusty appearance I achieved by using different shades of brown (Humbrol), applied with small sponges - a technique adopted from Marc.
The bricks are single hand-laid miniature bricks, but I'm not quite sure yet if I'm gonna use single miniature bricks for the surrounding wall as well or if I'm going to give the card board bricks like in this thread 1/35 Paper Structure Vignette *link* (http://www.finescalerr.com/smf/index.php?topic=1468.0) another try ...
To fill the joints I used Hydrocal (Noch/Woodland Scenics). Because of it's low viscosity it does better seep into the really tiny gaps (0,5mm) than common plaster.
The door lintel and the fundament are made from common plaster, slightly tinted with a drop of black acrylic colour (Lukas Cryl Terzia). I removed the boarding while the plaster was still damp and structured it with a small wire brush as used for cleaning spark plugs - as practised i. e. by Marc before. The following colour treatment will be done with acrylic colours from Floquil/Polly Scale and Vallejo ... as soon as they arrive ... ;)
Cheers
There is always this site for door inspiration - http://abriendo-puertas.tumblr.com/ (When you want even more inspiration than your brain can handle!!!)
Quote from: artizen on July 14, 2012, 11:10:36 PM
There is always this site for door inspiration - http://abriendo-puertas.tumblr.com/ (When you want even more inspiration than your brain can handle!!!)
... :o :o :o ...
Quote from: mad gerald on July 15, 2012, 01:25:00 PM
Quote from: artizen on July 14, 2012, 11:10:36 PM
There is always this site for door inspiration - http://abriendo-puertas.tumblr.com/ (When you want even more inspiration than your brain can handle!!!)
... :o :o :o ...
Pretty girl . And the doors and windows aren't bad either .
G'evening all,
discovering, that large scale modelling in 1/16 scale seems to become more popular, I was giving it a try and felt very comfortable regarding aging eyes and fingers ... ;D
The prototype of the wooden crates measures 60 x 40 cm, making approx. 3,75 x 2,5 cm in 1/16 scale. The wood strips are Limewood (1mm thickness) cut with a buzz saw to fit, as well as the three-edged corner parts, made from rectangular wood strips cut with a 45° adjustment of the saw blade. The parts have first been coloured with different blends of Vallejo acrylics wet in wet and then glued together using wood glue. The nail imitations have been made with a mechanical pencil, followed by some rust colour, applied with the tip of a tooth pick. Finally when dry, I gave a slight shade around the nail imitation using thinned dark Vallejo acrylic and/or gray wood stain.
Making the weed, growing in the corner of the broken crate in some left soil (coffee powder), I scanned the leaf of a jewelweed (Impatiens Parviflora), downscaled it and printed it on cigarette paper (0,03 mm thickness), taped on a common sheet of paper for printing. The stalk is made from copper wire (0,25 mm thickness) out of a harddisk computerwire. The leafs were coloured (ink jet) printouts, but after having superglued the leafs to the stalks I gave them another colour treatment, using Humbrol enamel.
The both Narrow Gauge Annuals are to scale and printed on cigarette paper as well ... ;)
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Cheers
WOW!
Color is great on both boxes!
The annuals are a neat touch too!
-Marty
Excellent coloring on the crates ... plants look nice and delicate! -- Dallas
Beautiful work. Terrible choice of books. You should have magazines showing beautiful girls in thong bikinis, not Narrow Gauge Annuals!! -- Russ
QuoteTerrible choice of books
Yea! Where's my gazette?
Quote from: lab-dad on August 15, 2012, 05:36:55 AM
QuoteTerrible choice of books
Yea! Where's my gazette?
... mmmmh ... may be Russ is preparing a new mag for publication ... ??? ;D
"may be Russ is preparing a new mag for publication ..."
If I do prepare a new magazine, it will give new meaning to the word "model"! -- ssuR